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I am transitioning to a new project management role in my company. Okay, um, how do you maintain having high standards with your team, making sure things get done, but still keeping the project on time and on budget?
You know, I think it takes humanity. I think the answer is humanity. I actually think the best way to be a great project manager or get things done is to be a great listener instead of a talker, right? You go into this new role, I see with a lot of my project management people, they're organized, they're good, but they want to talk it to success. I actually think it's the drop down, flip it and reverse it. I think it's a Missy Elliott structure.
I think the way you win is by listening to the people, to why they're not doing well, why are they two weeks behind? If you have actually apply empathy and understand what's going on there, you become known to everybody as the project manager that gets it. And so, I, I say, you walk in with not your architecture and organization and like, "I'm going to guide this." You're going to guide it with your ears more than your mouth. And that is something most project management oriented people only learn later in life and realize is the key factor. [Music]